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Written by: David Mikkelson
Dec. 30, 2008
Is New Year's Day the day of the year on which the most people are killed in automobile accidents?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Dec. 18, 2008
The image of Santa Claus as a jolly large man in a red-and-white suit was the standard long befo ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Dec. 1, 2008
Sending cash via the United States Postal Service may not be advisable, but no law prohibits tha ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 24, 2008
Rumor claims Nancy Pelosi spurned use of the House Speaker's 'small private jet' and demanded it ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 6, 2008
The purpose of articles in some publications is not always to inform readers, but to entertain o ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 5, 2008
A video clip that shows an airplane making a safe landing after losing a wing was a promotional ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 4, 2008
His own mother's death may have been the most shattering moment of Walt Disney's life.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 1, 2008
Were gang initiates really planning to kill 30 or more women on Halloween 2008?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 30, 2008
You may be surprised by how Dracula is actually dispatched in Bram Stoker's iconic vampire novel.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 29, 2008
Fact check: Hemingway anecdote, never substantiated.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 23, 2008
Barack Obama supposedly admitted to being a Muslim during an ABC News interview.
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson David Mikkelson
Oct. 17, 2008
Will collecting plastic bottle caps provide chemo treatments to cancer sufferers or prosthetic l ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 5, 2008
Receipt of special 'closed' signs by Bank of America signals that U.S. banks will soon be shut d ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 5, 2008
The rumor comes from flier intended to suppress the vote during the 2008 presidential campaign.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Sept. 28, 2008
A lawsuit brought by an injured fan purportedly revealed that an umpire blew an important call i ...
Written by: Snopes Staff Barbara Mikkelson
Sept. 25, 2008
A pervasive bit of political "humor" takes a swipe at the perceived lifestyles of various minori ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
Sept. 4, 2008
Do electric fans left running overnight kill persons sleeping in the breeze they generate?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Sept. 2, 2008
Rumor: Photograph shows Sarah Palin posing in a U.S. flag bikini while holding a rifle.
Written by: Snopes Staff
Aug. 31, 2008
Reports that criminals are handing out key rings with transmitters embedded in them in order to ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Aug. 27, 2008
"We hope that issuing certified copies of the original Certificate of Live Birth to President Ob ...
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